October 9-14 – Austin Startup Week returns with lots of great programming, including mobility seminars and the Startup Crawl (link)

What we’re recommendingNEWS: Apple has ‘finally’ added support for NFC tags in iOS 11. Android has supported this for years, but Apple has kept their NFC technology locked-up. This will open many doors for programmers – pun intended. (link)

NEWS: Bike-sharing has become a formidable competitor to Ride-sharing in China (link)

NEWS: AR is helping travelers navigate one of the world’s largest airports (link)

VIDEO: Blockchain primer – pulling from the archives a bit, but as Blockchain is becoming ever-more relevant we thought it would be a good idea to look back a little. (link)

BRAIN BREAK: Google’s image reader API is a fun way to get distracted – try dropping your own photo in and see what it has to say. (link)